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Subject: Re: deleting directories with ??? in name
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in message <20040316035734.GC3419@moo.holy.cow>,
wrote Parv thusly...
>
>     # find . \( -inum <inode-1> -o -inum <inode-2> \) -print0 \
>     # | xargs -0 rm -fv

Oh, don't forget the '-r', for recursion, option for rm(1) as i did.
Use this instead...

  # find . \( -inum <inode-1> -o -inum <inode-2> \) -print0 \
  # | xargs -0 rm -rfv


  - Parv

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